What do you get when you mix gutter balls with Butterballs? You get the annual Turkey Bowl fundraiser in Cincinnati.

This week, residents of the Queen City gathered at Fountain Square Ice Rink for a turkey bowling competition to raise money for a local food bank. Participants paid $5 or brought two canned food items to donate to earn three chances at rolling frozen turkeys down the ice at set-up bowling pins. The one with the most pins down won the prize – an iPod Shuffle.

Flying turkeys – or at least, turkeys sent flying – seems to be a big deal in Cincinnati, where once upon a time on a sitcom long, long ago, newsman Les Nessman decried “the horror” of watching live turkeys dropped from a hot air balloon in a Thanksgiving stunt on “WKRP in Cincinnati.”